Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu 12.10 and beyond, Unity 2D will no longer be maintained.

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

On 05/10/2012 05:58 AM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:09:25PM PDT, bando?ers wrote:
> > So, while I agree that there's no great need for most people to use the transitional, (between LTS), 
> > releases, but am left with a question.
> > Does this mean that those who don't have 3d graphics support will be forever restricted to precise and back?
> > Again I don't see this as much of an issue for people now that LTS releases will be supported for 5years, and 
> > of course hardware is aging as am I. I just want to make sure I understand.
> How old is the hardware you are currently using? Chances are that you indeed do have graphics hardware that 
> has 3D graphics support, and you haven't needed to set it up, i.e you have an NVIDIA card that is not capable 
> of rendering 3D graphics without installing the proprietary NVIDIA drivers. There are some edge cases for 
> specific hardware released in the last 10 years like a handfull of netbooks, but modern Linux desktop shells 
> are doing their best to support 3D graphics hardware that is 8-9 years old. See my recent email about desktop 
> shells and their graphical requirements for more information.
>
> If you are still using hardware that is more than 9 years old, then yes you will need to upgrade, unless you 
> switch to XFCE or LXDE, as chances are your CPu won't be fast enough to render any desktop at a sufficient 
> speed to be usable.
>
> Luke
Hi all,
I strongly believe that Unity 2D should have existed for much longer.
I guess people are aware that tablets would need such a thing that takes 
less memory.
In any case, if accessibility is broken in Unity 3D? then it is Ubuntu's 
responsibility to fix it up.
For Unity 2D I can only say one thing.
Some one aught to have a ppa for Unity 2D and since Unity is licensed 
under gpl, a community driven team can surely maintain it.
Talking about 3D support, my Thinkpad was taken in 2007 and I am not 
sure if it has 3D card.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.